Developer II (12-month Contract)

Nelson Education

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country. Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all. That's why Nelson continuously strives to create dynamic curriculum-aligned content that caters to diverse learning styles, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and life-long learning. In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem. Edwin is a learning platform for classroom success, providing curriculum-linked content, engaging tools and unparalleled support to reach every student. Nelson is redefining education and making a positive impact on the way knowledge is acquired and shared by creating the possible, one learner at a time.

About the Role
Reporting to the Team Lead, the Developer II is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting internal applications, services, data pipelines, and platform tooling. The person in this position implements new features and functionality, improves application reliability and performance, supports deployment workflows, troubleshoots system issues, and helps maintain secure and scalable development and production environments. This role combines software development with DevOps-oriented responsibilities, including CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes-based deployments, logging, monitoring, and operational support.

Requirements

• 5 years of work experience with several of the following technologies and practices
• TypeScript or JavaScript
• Node.js, Express, Golang or similar backend frameworks
• REST APIs, or service-to-service integrations
• RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Git, npm, yarn, or similar development tooling
• Automated testing frameworks and code quality tools
• CI/CD tools and deployment pipelines
• Docker or other containerization tools
• Kubernetes concepts and experience deploying or supporting applications in Kubernetes-based environments
• Elastic Stack / ELK, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, or related observability tools
• Application logging, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting
• Cloud or hosted infrastructure environments
• Secure software development and operational best practices
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking basics (DNS, TLS, load balancers, ingress).
• Familiarity with secrets management tooling (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, sealed secrets) and dependency/vulnerability scanning.
• Database operations experience: schema migrations, indexing, and basic performance tuning.
• Linux/shell fluency and comfort with on-call or production support responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting applications in development, staging, and production environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, ingress, services, secrets, config maps, and deployment troubleshooting.
• Experience building or maintaining observability dashboards, alerts, and log-based troubleshooting workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with data pipelines, background jobs, queues, or event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js is helpful but not required.
• Ability to balance feature development with operational reliability, maintainability, and security.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both software development and infrastructure teams.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, or HIPAA, and the engineering practices required to support them.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and cost/capacity awareness in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain internal applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and efficient code.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, QA, infrastructure, and operations teams to understand requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application, integration, deployment, and environment-related issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, deployments, and release processes.
• Assist with configuration, deployment, and monitoring of applications running in containerized or Kubernetes-based environments.
• Work with logging, monitoring, and observability tools, including Elastic Stack / ELK, to diagnose issues and improve system reliability.
• Support application performance monitoring, alerting, and production-readiness practices.
• Write automated tests and validation checks to improve code quality and reliability.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared engineering standards.
• Help improve development workflows, deployment processes, and operational best practices.
• Support secure software development practices, access control, secrets management, and environment configuration.
• Participate in security reviews, threat modelling discussions, and remediation of vulnerabilities identified by SCA, SAST, or DAST tooling.
• Apply secure coding practices for common risks (OWASP Top 10), including input validation, authentication and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC), and safe handling of sensitive data.
• Support incident response, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews for production issues.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code reviews, environment hygiene, and operational runbooks for the services you own.
• Stay current with backend development, cloud-native practices, DevOps tools, and operational techniques.
• Actively participate in the SCRUM process.

Benefits

• Access to Linkedin Learning for continuous skill growth
• Mentorship and professional development opportunities
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential support spanning from mental health services to financial counselling, and many things in-between.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed